Edition · March 29, 2022
The Daily Fuckup: March 29, 2022
A backfill look at the Trump-world stumbles, legal headaches, and self-inflicted wreckage that landed on March 29, 2022.
March 29, 2022 delivered a familiar Trump-world mix: a doomed legal fight around the January 6 investigation, fresh evidence that his election lies were still dragging his allies into the legal grinder, and a renewed pile-on over his habit of pushing conspiracy sludge in public. The day’s biggest theme was not any single blockbuster ruling, but the accumulating evidence that the former president’s post-election scheme kept generating subpoenas, bad headlines, and judicial skepticism. This edition focuses on the strongest documented screwups that were materially reported on that calendar day in the U.S. newsroom cycle.
Closing take
If there was a through-line on March 29, 2022, it was that Trump’s after-election ecosystem was still paying for the original lie. The courts, investigators, and even his own hand-picked messengers kept discovering that the story was not holding up under basic legal scrutiny. That’s not just embarrassing; it’s the kind of recurring damage that turns a political talking point into a paper trail.
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Jan. 6 fallout
Confidence 5/5
★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5
Serious fuckup
A March 28, 2022 ruling from Judge David Carter ordered most of John Eastman’s disputed emails turned over to the House Jan. 6 committee. The decision did not charge or convict anyone, but it did apply the crime-fraud exception in a civil privilege fight after finding the committee had shown, by a preponderance of the evidence, that some communications likely furthered crimes tied to the effort to overturn the 2020 election.
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Missing records
Confidence 4/5
★★★☆☆Fuckup rating 3/5
Major mess
March 29 brought more attention to the gap in Trump’s White House phone logs during the hours of the January 6 attack. The missing record has become a credibility problem all by itself, because the absence of a call log looks a lot like the kind of hole that invites suspicion rather than explanation. For Trump, the issue keeps feeding the larger Jan. 6 investigation and makes his attempts to minimize the day look even thinner.
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Conspiracy recycling
Confidence 5/5
★★☆☆☆Fuckup rating 2/5
Noticeable stumble
On March 29, 2022, Trump repeated an unproven claim that Elena Baturina, the widow of Moscow’s former mayor, sent $3.5 million to a company he said was linked to Hunter Biden. He offered no new evidence in the interview and did not substantiate the allegation.
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